HBO Documentary will release the documentary Frederick Douglass: In Five Speeches on February 23 at 9 p.m. ET/PT via HBO and HBO Max, from executive producers Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Dyllan McGee. The project is inspired by David Blight's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of…
BET and Paramount Players have set the premiere date for Quincy Ledbetter’s Alieu the Dreamer starring Denzel Whitaker (Black Panther, The Great Debaters, Training Day) and Haley Webb (The Final Destination, Blonde). The movie script was announced as the winner of BET's nationwide competition “Project CRE8” and will…
Mutiny Pictures, a distribution and development company formed by producer Ben Yennie and development executive Colleen Butler, will release of Queen of the Capital, a documentary that tells the of D.C. bureaucrat by day/drag queen by night Muffy Blake Stephyns. Directed by Josh Davidsburg, the pic, which screened at…